Now image the situation where the popularity of the #FOSS project grew unnoticed, and the expectation of "hobby project" was never well conveyed.
Even the maintainer at this point considers the project "more than hobby". They want to keep working in the way that motivated them to start, despite people demanding differently. They still want #JoyOfCoding and to build what they want, thus decide to retain full control of contributions.
The label #BDFL is slammed broadly about in harsh criticism.
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10 ███ This is justified! 26 ████████ With clear BDFL steering adjust your expectations 13 ████ I don't know
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@smallcircles I think it's justified because, well, the developer is benevolent for sharing their work, dictator because they are making all the decisions, and for life because presumably they […]
@smallcircles there's a dimension about money and one about power somewhere in there.
As soon as you take money, expectations change to whatever purpose you took the money for. Probably not […]
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@smallcircles It depends a lot on circumstances. if the person running the project describes themselves as BDFL, then of course it's accurate to describe them that way. If not, but volunteers […]
@smallcircles I feel like this falls in the art/music/writing category of, "once you put it out in the world, you no long own it and people are free to do with it as they wish, but they also […]
@smallcircles good questions. I think there is an interesting conundrum here. On the one hand most people value personal freedom - and whatever you do that does not do harm is fine. But when […]
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